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NALC Branch 79 History
On December 14, 1890, a group of less than ten carriers organized Seattle Branch 79, NALC.
-Branch 79 By-Laws
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In 1954, Cushman Corporation revealed a four-wheel prototype of its mailster for testing in Miami, FL. Ultimately, the US Postal Service settled on an endearing if dangerous three-wheeled version and ordered more than 30,000 of them from four manufacturers to put city carriers on wheels. Mailsters remained in use through the 1960's. In the first photo, a proud Seattle Letter Carrier shows off his mailster. The second image, from USPS' 1966 mailster training manual, illustrates one of the more dangerous aspects of operating a mailster. -courtesy of NALC Postal Record's "Mail through the Millennia, part 2" | |
The front of the Letter Carriers Building before the 1992 remodel.
Links to Seattle Mail and Local Labor History
Links to NALC and International Labor History